Pricing & Promotions Analyst

maurices • Duluth, MN

4d • $60,000 - $75,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Pricing & Promotions Analyst is the connective tissue for maurices' omni-channel promotions. The role analyzes how promotions perform, maintains and communicates the promotional calendar, and builds the reporting and planning tools teams use to plan, execute and evaluate promotions. It combines analysis with collaboration, working with Planning, Merchandising, Marketing, Visual, Store Operations and Field teams to turn data into clear recommendations they can act on.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
• Minimum of 3-5 years of professional work experience, with 2+ years in an analytical role required
• Proven experience using data to drive decisions
• Strong experience with Excel
• Experience with reporting tools (MicroStrategy or similar)
• Solid understanding of retail math, calculations and formulas
• Excellent communication skills; comfortable leading conversations across diverse teams
• Ability to synthesize data in an easily digestible way
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing business priorities
• Ability to collaborate with others to maximize business process and drive financial results

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Pricing/Promotions, Planning or retail preferred
• Experience building reporting or planning tools preferred
• Prior experience in a fast paced, dynamic environment preferred
• Experience using AI or automation tools to improve analysis or workflow efficiency preferred
• Curious mindset and enjoys solving complex problems
• Self-starter who takes initiative and follows through with minimal oversight, and knows when to bring others in
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Highly detail-oriented

Responsibilities

• Analyzes how past promotions performed and makes recommendations for future ones
• Uses multiple tools and reports (Strategy, Excel promotional recap files, etc.) to evaluate performance, inventory levels and historical trends
• Partners in strategic promotional discussions with Planning, Merchandising, Marketing, Visual, Store Operations and Field, bringing a data-backed point of view
• Helps create pricing and promotion recaps, including requests for regular price and/or clearance price changes
• Asks the right questions, digs into the data and finds insights that lead to better decisions
• Maintains the omni-channel promotional calendar and communicates updates to all channels
• Gathers all needed information from cross-functional partners so the calendar is complete and accurate
• Attends key in-season promotional meetings and follows communication updates so the calendar runs as intended
• Identifies promotional issues, escalates them, and works with partners to resolve them
• Builds reporting and planning tools that help teams judge promotional effectiveness, inventory position and historical trends
• Develops simple input tools that make it easier for planning and execution teams to work together and move quickly
• Identifies process pain points, escalates them, and recommends improvements
• Uses AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to automate recurring reporting, speed up analysis and simplify promotional workflows, and validates AI-generated output against source data
• Understands the merchandise product hierarchy and the inclusion/exclusion needs of promotional offers
• Supports key promotional processes (for example, store sale direction and inclusion/exclusion files) as business needs require
• May be cross-trained to help with promotional setup and testing as needed

Benefits

• Choice of three medical plans, including a PPO plan or High-Deductible plans
• Health Savings Account, with employer contribution
• Dental, and Vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent Care)
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Voluntary Life, Spouse, and Child Life Insurance
• Long-Term Disability coverage
• Basic Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability coverage
• Wellbeing platform with Personify Health
• Employee Assistance Program available for associates and their families
• 401(k), which offers an immediately vested Safe Harbor matching contribution
• Tuition Assistance program
• PTO benefits, including vacation (with accrual or flexible options based on role)
• Annual sick time awards
• Holiday pay
• Two weeks of New Parent Leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement
• Continuous opportunities for learning
• Connection building through Associate Resource Groups
• Free access to a state-of-the-art onsite Fitness Facility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree